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<p>The IDC tool is part of the <a href="../activeqt/activeqt-index.html">ActiveQt</a> build system and makes it possible to turn any Qt binary into a full COM object server with only a few lines of code.</p>
<p>IDC understands the following command line parameters:</p>
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 <thead><tr class="qt-style"><th >Option</th><th >Result</th></tr></thead>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >dll -idl idl -version x.y</td><td >Writes the IDL of the server <i>dll</i> to the file <i>idl</i>. The type library wll have version x.y&#x2e;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><td >dll -tlb tlb</td><td >Replaces the type library in <i>dll</i> with <i>tlb</i></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >-v</td><td >Print version information</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><td >-regserver dll</td><td >Register the COM server <i>dll</i></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >-unregserver</td><td >Unregister the COM server <i>dll</i></td></tr>
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<p>It is usually never necessary to invoke IDC manually, as the <code>qmake</code> build system takes care of adding the required post processing steps to the build process. See the <a href="../activeqt/activeqt-index.html">ActiveQt</a> documentation for details.</p>
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